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Labour’s leadership candidates have found it easy to agree about immigration during this leadership contest. That reflects the broad pro-migration consensus across the Labour Party: it is at least one issue on which so-called Corbynites…
Labour has struggled to find its voice on immigration. Since different parts of Labour’s electorate see immigration differently, it can be tempting to ‘change the subject’ – and pivot to jobs and housing as the ‘real issues’ underpinning…
David Blunkett’s stark warning that the Labour Party needs to take care not to pander to xenophobia in its approach to immigration offers the latest expression of concern about how Labour has struggled to work out what to think, say or do…
By Sunder Katwala / @sundersays Britain Must Ban Migrants, the Daily Express' front-page splash yesterday is, on the face of it, a pretty fair shorthand summary of what Labour peer Maurice Glasman told Mary Riddell in a Fabian Review…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft I have been reading "Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour leader", the biography of Ed Miliband, by Mehdi Hasan and James MacIntyre, which is published today. Many Next Left readers will no doubt want…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft The biggest winners of the 2011 elections anywhere in Britain are surely Alex Salmond and the Scottish National Party. What had looked like being a neck and neck battle with Labour until the final weeks of the…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft September 11th 2001 was the day the world changed. That journalistic truism will be endlessly repeated this week in the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden, which was dramatically announced by President Obama…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft British Republicanism is perhaps the least successful political project of my lifetime. There was 19% support for a Republic in 1969. It is almost exactly the same today. This has been described by veteran…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft George Osborne is a happy man. One year ago, the shadow chancellor was pretty sure that he would now be Britain's most hated politician by now. Yet Osborne has not reaped anything like the level of public…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft David Cameron and his government deserve credit today for having worked hard to play a constructive role - alongside France, Arab League nations and others - to eventually push the United Nations process to…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Part of the difficulty of being David Miliband and defining a political role during the post-leadership contest year is how one of Labour's major figures can make his own significant contributions to the debate…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft The theme of the next election will cause problems for all politicians of all parties. It will be the "why should anybody believe a word you say" election. Jeremy Paxman et al will have a field day, so…
